During a time when many are complaining about divisiveness in politics and in society, it seems counterintuitive for a book ...

Can computers think? Is there a God? What is the meaning of life? Is abortion morally wrong? Can anyone really know anything at all? By studying such difficult questions, students of philosophy learn ...

T. J. Mawson, University of Oxford ‘Though life's meaning is on the map in analytic philosophy in ways it has never been before, philosophers who write from an explicitly religious persuasion occupy a ...

Others are serving natural life sentences and argue that the death penalty would be preferable. Lackey, the Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor of Philosophy and director of graduate studies in ...

Philosophy encompasses the study of knowledge, reason, existence, and value. Philosophers carefully consider the nature of the universe, humanity's place in it, the proper conduct of individual and ...

Richard Rorty's philosophy transforms therapy into a collaborative journey of imagination and self-creation, reshaping how we ...

More BC students than ever are opting for the examined life, according to enrollment figures, and the numbers are said to be the highest in University memory. According to Assoc. Prof. Ronald Tacelli, ...

Humans naturally raise fundamental questions about life and the world. Philosophy offers us conceptual tools to formulate and attempt to address such questions. In this sense it is the most inclusive ...

To confront the questions and challenges in life that have no easy answers requires, in Kant’s words, the courage to use one’s own understanding. Our mission in the Philosophy Department at Miami ...